Historic Quotes - Page 17

• There are those, on the one hand, who hope to achieve the social revolution through the State by preserving and even extending most of its powers to be used for the revolution. And there are those like ourselves who see the State, both in its present form, in its very essence, and in whatever guise it might appear, an obstacle to the social revolution, the greatest hindrance to the birth of a society based on equality and liberty, as well as the historic means designed to prevent this blossoming.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Mean, Hands, Essence

  Peter Kropotkin, George Woodcock (1993). “Fugitive writings”, Black Rose Books Ltd

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• By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

  Natan Sharansky

  Peace, Doubt, Literature

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• I have repeatedly stressed that the selfish impulses of man constitute a much less historic danger than his integrative tendencies. To put it in the simplest way: the individual who indulges in an excess of aggressive self-assertiveness incurs the penalties of society-he outlaws himself, he contracts out of the hierarchy. The true believer, on the other hand, becomes more closely knit into it; he enters the womb of his church, or party, or whatever the social holon to which he surrenders his identity.

  Arthur Koestler

  Selfish, Party, Men

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• It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.

  Stendhal

  Interesting, Landscape, Moral

  Stendhal (1962). “Memoirs of a tourist [by] Stendhal [pseud.] Translated by Allan Seager: With illus. by Roger Barr”

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• We have a historic system in place since the early part of the last century and this is going to be one of the biggest battles in California if we decide to take it on.

  Marc Levine

  California, Battle, Lasts

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The death of Osama bin Laden marks the most significant development in our fight against al-Qa'ida. I salute President Obama ... in achieving this major accomplishment. ... The death of Osama bin Laden is historic.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Fighting, Accomplishment, President

  "U.S. leaders, political groups, welcome news of bin Laden's death", www.cnn.com. May 2, 2011.

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• I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Taken, Judging, Events

  "Iran's president ranges far in interview: talks Israel, slams homosexuality". www.cnn.com. September 25, 2012.

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• Any visitor to an historic country town or city quickly becomes aware in his or her peregrinations that the most attractive houses in the centre are invariably the offices of lawyers.

  P. D. James

  Country, Cities, Office

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• I will not be standing for office. I'm nearing 70; there are younger people within our movement. I just wish to contribute intellectually to the historic process of taking Tunisia from the era of repression to one of democracy.

  Rashid al-Ghannushi

  People, Office, Democracy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Even as a supporter of Roe v. Wade, I am compelled to acknowledge that the language both sides use on this subject can be unfortunately misleading and unconstructive.... Everyone is worse off for it.

  John F. Kerry

  Abortion, Use, Wade

  "Kerry Speaks About Faith, 'Godly Tasks'" by Michael R. Blood, www.washingtonpost.com. September 18, 2006.

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• The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Jobs, Engineering, Moral Leadership

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• Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.

  Robert Englund

  Character, Horror Stories, Actors

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I became the NASA administrator — or before I became the NASA administrator — Barack Obama charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering.

  Charles Bolden

  Children, Math, Engineering

  "Does the 'S' In NASA Suddenly Stand for 'Stupid'?" by Dan Gainor, www.foxnews.com. July 07, 2010.

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• Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.

  Robert D. Putnam

  Dropping Out, Six, Young

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• If you want to make history, you have to do historic things

  Kobe Bryant

  Want, Ifs

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• It is important for people to recognize that those who are working for the dissolution of our society have a spiritual agenda. They are not merely attempting to dismantle the historic cultural values of this nation and move us toward a homogenized world. They also want to destroy Christianity and Bible-based religion. It is a clear part of their agenda and they have already moved a long way in that direction.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

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• We should consider the possibility that many, and perhaps even all of Jesus' hell-fire or end-of-the-universe statements refer not to postmortem [after death] judgment but to the very historic consequences of rejecting his kingdom message of reconciliation and peacemaking. The destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 67-70 seems to many people to fulfill much of what we have traditionally understood as hell.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Jesus, Fire, People

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• A historic, in-depth study of what it means to risk one's life to be an artist. It is also a depiction of sexual confusions, ironic outrage and rage, and the shedding of society's armor to create a female knight in pursuit of a vision. Georgia O'Keeffe is the one woman who was there first in the world of art.

  Sandra Hochman

  Art, Mean, Knights

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• Please join me in applauding the ESA - European Space Agency’s historic efforts with the Rosetta Mission and landing a spacecraft on rotating comet. It may seem like a work of fiction, but it is very real, very impressive, and will help us to further uncover the mysteries surrounding the formation of the solar system. They made a beautiful short film using an imaginary landscape to illustrate today’s historic feat.

  Stephen Hawking

  Beautiful, Real, Agency

  FaceBook post by Stephen Hawking from Nov 12, 2014

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• If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Age, Desire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.73, Penguin

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• The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Conquer The World, Victory, Easy

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.91, Library of America

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• Zionism is an abominable, racist and colonial movement. Like all colonial and apartheid systems, it's in the interest of all that it be swept away. My hope is to see it replaced, without any bloodshed, with a democratic, secular and lay state – for example on the borders of historic Palestine – and where Palestinians and Israelis could live under equal rights of citizenship without ethnic and religious discrimination. It's a wish that I hope will soon become a reality.

  Vittorio Arrigoni

  Religious, Reality, Rights

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• In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or rock, it can be the other way around.

  Michael Kosser

  Writing, Rocks, Nashville

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• The resurrection is not merely important to the historic Christian faith; without it, there would be no Christianity. It is the singular doctrine that elevates Christianity above all other world religions.

  Adrian Rogers

  Christian, Resurrection Of Jesus Christ, World Religions

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• The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Land, Agriculture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.393, Penguin

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